I can NOT understand why the Tennis Channel doesn't "mine" stuff like this for their programming...there are a lot of really interesting side stories related to pro tennis that they don't cover very well at all.

Wow!! That is a great stat you pulled up there, thanks for sharing man!! $73,000 dang, that's a lot of money, lol.. 13 racquets an hour is crazy, I wonder how long it takes them to string a racquet, well I divided 60 by 13 and I came up with around 4 minutes per racquet.. Crazy.

Wow!! That is a great stat you pulled up there, thanks for sharing man!! $73,000 dang, that's a lot of money, lol.. 13 racquets an hour is crazy, I wonder how long it takes them to string a racquet, well I divided 60 by 13 and I came up with around 4 minutes per racquet.. Crazy.

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You're forgetting it's a team of about 10 (maybe 12) stringers at the peak, which gets us back to a regular 30ish minutes a racquet, maybe a little more. Remember too that each frame needs full service - labelling, wrapping, recording in a database of some kind, etc etc.

I'd bet many of the guys there - stringing on good machines - could and would do your or my racquet in sub-20 minutes if we asked. But stringing for the pros in such an environment, well it'd surely be as much (or more) about quality and precision than simply speed, in my humble opinion. I'll ask my mate this one too.

I think the most amazing stat is the guy who broke the 'record', stringing 501 frames for the tournament. Even if that is indeed over the three weeks (including practice & quallies), it still seems mammoth!